Commissioned by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for the League of Composers’ 30th anniversary, The Tender Land is Aaron Copland’s most well-known opera (and, indeed, one of very few the American composer wrote). Copland took inspiration from Walker Evans’s famous photographs of the American midwest during the Great Depression, and painted a musical landscape to match the open fields and simple life lived by sharecroppers and rural farmers of the era.
Originally envisioned for television presentation, the work was rejected by NBC’s producers and went on to be premiered instead at
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